Alexandra Kidgell - Soprano

Alexandra Kidgell read music at Cambridge and completed post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music, from which she graduated with distinction, and was awarded the DipRAM for an outstanding final recital.  She was a finalist in the LBS Bach Singers’ Prize, and in the Royal Overseas League Music Competition.

Alexandra has appeared as a concert and oratorio soloist throughout the UK and Europe, and enjoys performing a wide variety of repertoire.  Recent and forthcoming appearances include Bach St Matthew Passion with the choir of Norwich Cathedral; Handel Messiah in Bath Abbey; Mozart Exsultate, jubilate in Christchurch Priory; Vivaldi Gloria for King’s College Choir, Cambridge, with Daniel Hyde and The Academy of Ancient Music; Vivaldi Nulla in mundo pax sincera for East Sussex Bach Choir; St John Passion in Norwich Cathedral, and with Leicester Philharmonic Choir; Handel Dixit Dominus and CPE Bach Magnificat for Twickenham Choral Society; Handel Messiah for Nottingham Harmonic Choir; Handel Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi Gloria in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester; Mozart Requiem in Worcester Cathedral; Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music in Glyndebourne opera house alongside Dame Felicity Lott; Bach Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen in Christchurch Priory; as well as solo voice concerts at the Wigmore Hall for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, Dunedin Consort and The Marian Consort.

Alexandra is a member of The Sixteen, with whom she has appeared in concert across the globe.   She lives in rural Sussex with her husband and two boys.